Prior to contracting with a company, the contracting authority shall ascertain that the company in question meets the following requirements:
it is able to provide the required guarantees concerning the recruitment, training, and oversight of its personnel;
its good reputation and irreproachable conduct in business are attested to both by its adherence to the Code of Conduct1and compliance with the provisions therein and, in particular, by:
1. experience in the field,
2. references, or
3. membership of a professional association;
c. it is solvent;
d. it has an adequate internal control system which ensures that its personnel comply with established standards of conduct and that disciplinary measures are taken where misconduct occurs;
e. it is authorised under the applicable law to carry out activities in the domain of private security;
f. it has liability insurance coverage in an amount commensurate with the risk incurred.
The contracting authority may, by way of exception, contract with a company that does not possess liability insurance coverage, where:
purchasing such insurance would engender disproportionate costs to the company; and
the liability risk and the amount of any compensatory damages to be borne by the Confederation may be assessed as low.
Footnotes
The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers may be consulted at the following Internet address:www.icoc-psp.org. ↩
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